Nicole Bogdas

An email from the AJC’s Kenny Monteith:

Hello,

I’m coordinating the SND Quick Course in Atlanta on June 23, and I wanted to send you an email letting you know more about our Region 3 event.

We have a fantastic lineup of professionals. Each will be speaking on the various ways you can return to your newsroom and be a strong leader when change encroaches your workplace.

And I think we all know, change IS coming.
So let SND and the AJC prepare you for any and all possibilities for change at your newspaper and Web site.

If you have ANY questions, please do not hesitate to contact me by phone or email. I really hope you’re able to attend.

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Kenny Monteith
News Design Team Leader
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
72 Marietta St. NW
Atlanta, GA 30303

OFFICE: 404.526.7011
FAX: 404.526.5977

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What: Viva La Revolution!
Where: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 72 Marietta Street NW
When: June 23. The program begins at 10 a.m. and will end around 5 p.m.
Who: See below
More info: http://snd.org/events/events.lasso?ID=32924 (pricing details)
Lodging: If you need to stay overnight, we have a corporate rate at the Omni Hotel next to the AJC.
The rate is $130 for one night.
Web site: www.omnihotels.com
Phone number: 404.818.4334, ask for Tara.
Need a cheaper option? Feel free to email or call me, and I can work with you on some cheaper options.

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Living the platform-neutral life!
In the last year, USA TODAY merged its print and online editorial staffs, redesigned usatoday.com to integrate social networking, and embarked on a series of experiments to explore journalism in a platform-neutral environment. I’ve been involved in all three initiatives, and will share my experiences and observations.
Ron Coddington, Senior Designer. USAToday.com
BIO: Coddington is a visual journalist whose career spans several major U.S. newspapers, including USA TODAY, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the San Jose Mercury News, where he was part of the staff awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting of the Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath. As art director for Knight-Ridder Tribune Graphics (now McClatchy Tribune Graphics) and KRT Interactive in Washington, D.C., he helped launch two successful products, Faces in the News caricature service (1993) and KRT European Graphics (1994). He embarked on his online career in 1995. Today, he is a senior designer at usatoday.com.
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The Print + Online connection
Visuals (graphics and photos) that move from print to online, and visa versa. What works and doesn’t, including examples for large and small budgets. Simple vs. complex. How to work photo galleries into your coverage (readers love them). And yes, planning is important.
Chris Heisel, Director of online development
Minla Shields, Deputy director of photography
Michael Dabrowa, Online graphic artist
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Maximizing your print design, every page counts
Inspring designers with creative ideas for inside layout as well as covers.
Cassie Armstrong, Orlando Sentinel news design editor
BIO: Armstrong is the news design editor at the Orlando Sentinel and was the site chair for SND’s 2006 Annual Workshop and Exhibition in Orlando. She was a judge for the society’s Best of Newspaper Design™ competition in 2006. She previously worked for five years as the A1 lead designer at the Indianapolis Star, for three years as a page designer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and as a reporter/photographer/designer at a small afternoon daily in Robinson, Ill. Her work has been recognized with awards from SND and other organizations.
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Industry trends for print and online
Targeted readers, niche publications, micro sites. What does that mean?
Chris Kelley, consultant from The Kelley Group
Bio: Chris is principal of The Kelley Group, a Dallas-based media consulting firm specializing in interactive strategy. His clients include Gazette Communications of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Blockbuster Inc. Prior to the launch of his firm last fall, Kelley was editor of DallasNews.com, Web site of The Dallas Morning News where he worked for 27 years. During Kelley’s five year tenure, DallasNews.com won several national journalism awards, among them the 2005 Online Convergence Award from the Associated Press Managing Editors and the 2004 Scripps-Howard Foundation Web Reporting Award.
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The proactive graphic department
In this time of newsroom cutbacks, your “art deparment” has to be more than just a place to get locator maps, logos and icons.
The only way we’ll survive into the next decade is to push content, content, content. Turn your “graphics geeks” into a resourceful, powerful content-driven visual journalism operation.
Charles Apple, Virginian-Pilot graphics director
Bio: Apple has been the graphics director at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk for three years. Previously, he was graphics editor of The Des Moines Register and an artist for the Chicago Tribune, The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer and for small papers in South Carolina and Georgia. A winner of numerous awards from the Society for News Design for graphics and graphics reporting, Apple has taught design and graphics seminars around the country, including a number of SND Quick Courses and the annual SND workshops in Minneapolis in 2000 and Orlando in 2006. He writes a column for the society’s quarterly magazine, Design. He is a moderator at VisualEditors.com. In his spare time, he reads 20th century U.S. History, collects Star Trek action figures and writes about himself in the third person.